Mother’s Day in the Czech lands was introduced by Alice Masaryková, the daughter of TGM
The holiday was inspired by the American version, which made it suspect under communism.
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Mother’s Day in the Czech Republic this year is celebrated on May 9. The holiday here has its roots in the First Republic, and it all but vanished in the communist era.
The first celebration of “Den matek” in then-Czechoslovakia was in 1926. Alice Masaryková, the daughter of first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk, was instrumental in introduction of the holiday.
It is based on the American model of always falling on the second Sunday in May, as Alice’s mother was American. The holiday had been celebrated in the U.S. starting in 1907, and became an official national holiday in 1914.
World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day to be celebrated on May 8
World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is an annual celebration of the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. World Red Cross Red Crescent Day is celebrated on 8 May each year.
This date is the anniversary of the birth of Henry Dunant (born 8 May 1828), the founder of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize.
The idea for an annual action [that] could take hold in the whole world . [that] would be a major contribution to peace was introduced just after World War I and evolved out of the Red Cross Truce, an initiative that was studied by an international commission established at the 14th International Conference of the Red Cross.